The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-25
LATE NEWS.
Items From All Points to February
18th. Inclusive.

Inc w lillian II. Macy, from CdrulH' d
wooden American ship of 1000 tons bur
den, Captain Hardness, master, consigned
to Balfour, Guthrie & Co., San Francisco,
by her owners, Carleton IL Norwood Of
Camden, Me-, went on the rocks near Fort
Point, February 18th but was tOwed off by
three tugs.
A fireman was killed and several were
injured through building on Post street
falling during a fire. The fire originated
in Chinese laundry in the basement.
Throughout Chile the appearance OF
cholera on the Atlantic slope has caused
CONSERVATION, and all the papers are filled
with articles advising the hygienic meas
ures which should be adopted to PREVENTS
spread to the Pacific. The Peruvian Con-
sui at Guayaqul is giving foul bills of
health to vessels leaving for Peruvian ports
and reports many cases of yellow fever
there. Peru has closed her ports to vessels
from Chile This shuts off the usual wheat
supply, and steps. are being taken to Sc
cure "a supply from California. The inn
portation. of cattle from the Argentine Re-
public has been stopped and the beef ques-
ton is assuming importance.
communication with the Argentine Repub-
lie. Cattle and mules have been stopped on
the frontier, and will probably all perish in
attempting to return.
Sixty lives were lost by o railroad acct
dent in Vermont. The wrecked train was
the Boston night express, consisting of To-
connective, baggage and postal cars, two pas
Senger cars and two sleepers. 1t was run
ming at the usual rate of speed, and when
about 200 yards south of the end OF the
bridge, near the old Windsor station,
broken rail was struck. The locomotive,
baggage car and postal car broke away
from the rest of the train, passing over the
bridge in safety. The rest of the train was
thrown from the rails and continued on the
rOadbed until it came near the edge of the
bridge, but there it ran over the abutment
and all the cars fell into the White river,
some fifty feet down. The gorge at this
point is very steep, and when the cars went
down there was a terrible crash. The en-
tire train caught fire. Twenty-six persons
were taken out alive from the burning cars,
but several died soon after. Sixty lives
were lost it is thought. a number of
bodies were buried under the ice.
The cold has been intense throughout
Montana. The loss of cattle has been
great, and an appalling loss of human life
from the same cause was imminent Febru-
airy 18th. The supply of fuel is almost ex
hausted. Snow began falling about the
middle of November, and there is now
more on the ground than for ten years.
Snow has drifted to enormous depths
Stage roads are entirely closed and trains
run irregularly The cold has ranged from
40 degrees below zero at Helena, the capt.
tai to 90 degrees at Fort Shaw and Assini-
bOine.
Secretary Manning has rendered his res
ignation to the President to take the man
agement of National Bank at New York
City. Speaker Carlisle is spoken of as his
successor at the Treasury. This would
give offense to Wall-street spectators and
the Bank ring.
Ex-Alderman O'Neill of New York has
been sentenced to four and half years in
Sing Sing and to pay fine of $4,000.
The snow storm was very heavy in Ore
gon and Northern California.
Francis Laurant, historian and publicist,
is dead.
There has been a tornado in the Ale
ghanies The weather in the Eastern
States has been unusually stormy. Heavy
falls of snow and drifts are recorded, ac-
companied by loss of life in many places.
a Brooklyn firm is working night and
day making drOp-hammers for France.
The great labor strike at New York and
other points is ended. All the employees
on the Corbin roads have been ordered to
resume work. The striking coal miners at
Airdrie, Scotland, succeeded.
Lord Dunraven has resigned office as
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
He will support the Tory Government out
of office.
The Pope, in response TO, friendly over
lures from China, has ifAsTucted Cardinal
SimeOni to prepare a convention securing
complete liberty fCr mission and Catholic
residents in the Chinese Empire. The pre-
posals will be sent to Peking on the 22d
inst.
Princess Louise, it is rumOred, will APP
ply for divorce from Lord Lorne.
President Cleveland is opposed to retail
iatory legislation on the Canadian fishery
question.
Inc BRUSH steamer w els Clty COIlldeu
in the Hudson river with the Lone Star,
of the Morgan line, and sunk. She was
worth $3.50 600, and her cargo was valued
at $14O,O 900.
Nineteen persons were executed at
Picking recently. Admiral Chang, who
commanded the Chinese fleet at Foochow
when the French destroyed it, was re-
prieved. His services may again be re-
quired.
A volcano has broken out in the Baku
petroleum district of Russia
Verde's new opera "Otello" has been
pronounced a decided success at Milan.
Italy end AbyssInIa.
The defeat of the Italians at Massowah,
in two days fighting, January 26th and
9th, was very decisive, although it is
claimed that in the action to Abyssinians
lost 5000 men. Renforcements have been
sent to MassOwah, and credit of 81 900 900 |
was voted. A ministerial crisis ensued, |
when the actual facts became known, the |
statement bv Minister DaDretiS ba;,,r +J,o+ |